From: The Hill
By Jamil Jaffer, opinion contributor
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Specifically, the U.S. government should immediately begin sharing real-time intelligence on cyber threats — including information obtained through classified means — with American companies in a form that is actionable. Though the federal government has been talking about the need for increased threat-sharing since at least 2011, the reality is that little effective threat-sharing has taken place to date.
It’s also critical the government know what it ought not do. For a number of years now, various groups have been pushing the federal government to regulate private-sector cybersecurity, claiming the presence of a market failure. While such bad ideas have been largely fought off in Congress, various and sundry federal and state regulators have recently taken action.
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